From patchwork Fri Nov 9 13:31:51 2018 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Tzvetomir Stoyanov X-Patchwork-Id: 10759717 Return-Path: Received: from mail-eopbgr810050.outbound.protection.outlook.com ([40.107.81.50]:60028 "EHLO NAM01-BY2-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727784AbeKIXNR (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Nov 2018 18:13:17 -0500 From: Tzvetomir Stoyanov To: "rostedt@goodmis.org" CC: "linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: [PATCH v2 05/11] tools/lib/traceevent: Man page for tep_get_header_page_size() Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 13:31:51 +0000 Message-ID: <20181109133135.25804-5-tstoyanov@vmware.com> References: <20181109133135.25804-1-tstoyanov@vmware.com> In-Reply-To: <20181109133135.25804-1-tstoyanov@vmware.com> Content-Language: en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-trace-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Length: 3092 Create a man page for tep_get_header_page_size(), as part of the libtraceevent API. Signed-off-by: Tzvetomir Stoyanov --- .../libtraceevent-header_size.txt | 73 +++++++++++++++++++ tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse-api.c | 4 +- 2 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-header_size.txt diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-header_size.txt b/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-header_size.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..8edf49d2a709 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/Documentation/libtraceevent-header_size.txt @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +libtraceevent(3) +================ + +NAME +---- +tep_get_header_page_size - Get the size of a long integer, in kernel context. + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +-- +*#include * + +int *tep_get_header_page_size*(struct tep_handle pass:[*]_tep_); + +-- +DESCRIPTION +----------- +The _tep_get_header_page_size()_ function returns the size of a long integer, +in kernel context. The _tep_ argument is trace event parser context. +This information is retrieved from /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/header_page, + "commit" field. + +RETURN VALUE +------------ +The _tep_get_header_page_size()_ function returns the size of a long integer, +in bytes + +EXAMPLE +------- +[source,c] +-- +#include +... +struct tep_handle *tep = tep_alloc(); +... + int lsize = tep_get_header_page_size(tep); + printf ("The size of a long in kernel context is %d bytes", lsize); +... +-- + +FILES +----- +[verse] +-- +*event-parse.h* + Header file to include in order to have access to the library APIs. +*-ltraceevent* + Linker switch to add when building a program that uses the library. +-- + +SEE ALSO +-------- +_libtraceevent(3)_, _trace-cmd(1)_ + +AUTHOR +------ +[verse] +-- +*Steven Rostedt* , author of *libtraceevent*. +*Tzvetomir Stoyanov* , author of this man page. +-- +REPORTING BUGS +-------------- +Report bugs to + +LICENSE +------- +libtraceevent is Free Software licensed under the GNU LGPL 2.1 + +RESOURCES +--------- +https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse-api.c b/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse-api.c index c0bbd7864f53..9137862261a5 100644 --- a/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse-api.c +++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse-api.c @@ -100,10 +100,10 @@ tep_data2host8(struct tep_handle *pevent, unsigned long long data) } /** - * tep_get_header_page_size - get size of the header page + * tep_get_header_page_size - get the size of a long integer, in kernel context * @pevent: a handle to the tep_handle * - * This returns size of the header page + * This returns the size of a long integer, in kernel context * If @pevent is NULL, 0 is returned. */ int tep_get_header_page_size(struct tep_handle *pevent)